Famous Quotes, Funny Sayings, Quotations About Love And Life

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George Ade

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
George Ade

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
George Ade

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
George Ade

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
George Ade

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
George Ade

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
George Ade

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
George Ade

One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.
George Ade

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
George Ade

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
George Ade

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
George Ade

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.
George Ade

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Niels Bohr

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
Niels Bohr

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Niels Bohr

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
Niels Bohr

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
Niels Bohr

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Niels Bohr

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
Niels Bohr

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Niels Bohr

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
Niels Bohr

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
Sam Abell

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
Sam Abell

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
Sam Abell

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.
Mortimer Adler

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
Mortimer Adler

We love even when our love is not requited.
Mortimer Adler

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
Mortimer Adler

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adler

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
Mortimer Adler

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
Mortimer Adler

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Mortimer Adler

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
Mortimer Adler

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
Mortimer Adler

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Mortimer Adler

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Mortimer Adler

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
Mortimer Adler

Love without conversation is impossible.
Mortimer Adler

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
Mortimer Adler

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Mortimer Adler

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
James Agee

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.
James Agee

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
James Agee

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
James Agee

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
James Agee

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
James Agee

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.
John Abercrombie

I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.
John Abercrombie

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
John Abercrombie

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.
John Abercrombie

You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.
John Abercrombie

Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there.
Ana Beatriz Barros

I want to go back to Brazil, get married, have lots of kids, and just be a couch tomato.
Ana Beatriz Barros

It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies.
Ana Beatriz Barros